When I moved a program from a Mac to this Windows PC, the VC++ 2008 compiler is giving me errors for passing unsigned ints to the cmath pow() function. As I understand, this function is not overloaded to accept anything but floating-point numbers.
Is there some compiler flag/setting that will ignore these errors? Also does anyone know how to find the documentation on the VC++ compiler?
This isn't a warning, it's an error. However, for me it's not an issue since my program is only dealing with numbers that come out as integers, so I don't care that they aren't floats. If it was just warnings I would move on with my life, but it's not letting me compile. Can I suppress errors somehow? Like I said, the errors aren't coming up on my Mac and the program is fine.
Regarding other answers here, it is not a good idea to tell the question author to turn off this warning. His code is broken - he's passing an unsigned int instead of a float. You should be telling him to fix his code!
This isn't a warning, it's an error. However, for me it's not an issue since my program is only dealing with numbers that come out as integers, so I don't care that they aren't floats. If it was just warnings I would move on with my life, but it's not letting me compile. Can I suppress errors somehow? Like I said, the errors aren't coming up on my Mac and the program is fine.
Integers and floats use different representations internally. If you have the same number in an int and a float, the bit pattern inside the storage for them is completely different. You cannot under any circumstances whatsoever expect your code to work if you are passing an integer when you should be passing a float.
Furthermore, I assert your Mac code either is silently using an overloaded version of that function (e.g. you are on that platform compiling with C++) or you believe it works when in fact it is working by chance or is not actually working.
No compilers ever written has the ability to turn off errors.
A warning means the compiler thinks you're making a mistake.
An error means the compiler doesn't know what to do.